Idea for transitioning social media whales...
Right now if a YouTube star joins Steemit, there isn't really incentive for their followers to come with them.
The content creator might mention Steemit. They might mention that they've made money on it. But why does the follower really care? They can follow them on YouTube, on the platform they're already used to.
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The people who are already invested in Steemit will upvote them to encourage them to keep sharing content here. But this would be costly to continue for long enough to guarantee the creator's engagement with the site. Eventually it needs to be upvoted by the people who enjoy the content.
What if there was a way to tether a social media star's followers to their Steemit account, and automatically share a portion of the star's rewards with them? (Maybe just for some temporary amount of time, maybe forever, I'm not sure.)
Now the followers all share in the success (even if just a tiny bit) and now they have incentive to see what this Steemit thing is all about. Some may invest further (begin sharing their own content, etc), and they'll have the beginning of their own little ecosystem that can support the content creator's work.
And now Steemit whales can rain upvotes at them in a way that guarantees it reaches a lot of people without the chance that it's a hit and run or they quickly lose interest and never really engage anyone with Steemit.
In my mind the content creator would be able to choose whether or not they want to tether followers. But they'll choose to do it if they know it makes it more likely that the community will upvote them.
How to tether followers is a different question, and maybe a tough one.
But one idea is Facebook friends. There's a limit of 5000, so it puts some sort of cap on the amount of alt accounts someone could make if they got the idea the person might join Steemit. And the 5000 would tend to be earlier and more interested followers.
I think it's actually more than just a "tactic" to draw people here more quickly.
It's kind of decentralization to the max and consistent with the vision here. If you support someone's work and share their content and contribute to the discussions, it seems natural that you might hold a very tiny "share" in that feed.
Of course, the content creator can upvote comments that they find useful. But attention is scarce and to me it seems like a clunky way to encourage positive contribution, relative to just making people a part of it.
Now that Steem technology makes it a viable thing to do, maybe sharing some percentage with your followers is the new norm that people in the future will choose to do, as just a practical way to make your feed a positive place.
Thoughts??
We could have a dedicated blog template oriented video producer.
The payout woukd be split as always but a couple of % would be sent in a "video" steemit account. This account would use the money to provide a deficated server for steemer to upload their videos.
All videos would have the logo Steemit on them so when they are shared on other plateforms, it makes us publicity.
The high rewarded videos would pay for the non rewarded ones. The only variable to adjust would be the % on blogs reward taken for the server. It could even be adjusted automatically with a simple script.
Cool idea. Do you think some youtubers might be skittish to really show their stripes like that? Like I wonder if they may not want to rock the boat too much if they already have a good gig going for them on youtube.
I guess it varies, the mega famous people would be slow to do it, but people with decent followings who aren't exactly rolling around in the Adsense fortune would be quicker to take the risk.
I think that should bring new video makers in the first place, not youtubers.
Only when small youtubers will see how much these guys win with their videos, we will see these small youtubers coming. Then medium sized youtubers and finally superstars ;)
That's a cool idea!
Thanks chad! Glad I'm not just lost in my own imagination :p
When I first heard about Steemit from my fellow YouTubers, I admit I was impressed and even begun making a video on it. However, upon the research I was doing for the videos content, I learned some disappointing facts about how the pay structure has more to do with WHO upvotes your stories rather than how many users upvote them or the quality of the stories users on here write and the value it provides. Most users devote hours writing great content and are lucky to make a dime!
So I personally am testing this platform under a different handle without revealing my YouTube name and brand. I want to see what my subscribers will experience and whether I want roughly 750,000 subscribers to learn about this platform from me. If I know it's a fair system for them, then fine, I will gladly bring them over. However, I could never be content in knowing that I was responsible for potentially hundreds of thousands of people have a bad experience on here, spending hours on end writing content that they will never be fairly compensated for.
We shall see.
Hey sinclair, that's pretty interesting.
Personally I wish I had a social media following, because I think I'd make more money on here than I would through ads. But who knows. Would be fun to try anyways.
The "who" upvotes your post mattering is a necessary evil I think, because otherwise everybody would just create dummy accounts to upvote themselves. So it would quickly become meaningless. So the solution is to measure it by amount of Steem Power rather than amount of accounts voting on it.
You could always just tell people what you know. If you tell them how it works, as best as you understand it, I don't really see what the problem would be.
Rewards are pretty inconsistent right now .. Either you have to get lucky with whale votes, or be one of the people with established followings who is a safe bet to curate. So I know what you mean. I think it will improve over time, as more people join, and the "middle class" expands (and as various improvements are made). But in the meantime I don't think you'd be hurting people at all, as long as you're realistic about what to expect and how it works.
The average person without large followings shouldn't really expect to make a bunch of money at social media. So that shouldn't really be the pitch. But they can support your videos and contribute in the comments and occasionally make a buck more than they would on YouTube hehe.
After a few celebs get on steemit, it will blow up.
Like peeling an egg shell!